Re: Cathedral in the dark.

Trouble is when I think of doing these comparisons I have to start from scratch so I can't get them exactly the same, unless I think of doing it at the outset.

I like the top in small size but larger size shows up regions of blur, but maybe not too much to be bothered about.

The bottom one looks better larger, but then you can make out dots in the sky which I tried to get dark without losing the foreground, sharpening seems to make it a bit more contrasty but it is sharpened very little.

Maybe I could try some dodging and burning but I avoid that stuff because I find it hard to get right.

Re: Cathedral in the dark.

Re: Cathedral in the dark.

The first kind of belts me on the head to make sure I 'get it'.....the second one really has a 'less is more' quality and has me appreciating it for longer and wanting to go down the drive and into the cathedral.
I hope that makes some sense (no help to your technical question sorry)?

Re: Cathedral in the dark.

Nth attempt. It is really hard to keep the look of the second since the original looks like it is taken on a bright sunny day, I'm using layers to darken the sky.
Here I thought that the ghost removal feature in Picturenaut should be turned off, it might be affecting DeNoise5 but I also set highlight to -1 even though there isn't anything much actually brighter than a midtone.

I haven't put a border on this yet, because I don't know if it is actually an improvement. It can be downloaded from my site.

Re: Cathedral in the dark.

Is this printable? I just had a few goes and my screen is calibrated. It came out too dark so I increased brightness in the printer and it turned blue So increased brightness of the image and that printed out blue.